Word: challengee
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Professor Sorokin will travel to Chicago during the Christmas vacation to deliver one of the two main addresses before the General Session of the American Sociological Society. His subject is "The Challenge of the Times to the Sociologist."
But civilian Japanese extremists began to make an extremely embarrassing noise. Immediate cause was the U. S. loan to China of $100,000,000 (TIME, Dec. 9). An unidentified Japanese, described as "an elderly individual, apparently a religious fanatic." defiled the white gateposts of the U. S. Embassy with two...
Most violinists were content to let him keep his unplayable piece to himself. Not so Louis Krasner. This bald, soft-spoken Boston fiddler had already won sympathetic cheers for fighting his way through a similarly cacophonous, crossword concerto by Schönberg's pupil, Alban Berg. Stung by this...
The 220 will be the feature race of the evening, with Captain Frannie Powers and rookie Hun Curwen meeting the challenge of Rick Cutler, 1939 Crimson tank leader, Cutler has been swimming daily in the M. T. T. and Harvard pools, but Powers is in shape for the battle of...
The ideas seem oblique, but they seem oblique here because an attempt has been made to translate them into prose, which should not have been done in the first place. If the reader should be bogged down by the poems, but is willing to accept their challenge, he has a...